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Volume is in some way complete in itself and has separate indices. The 

 great extent of the works renders such an arrangement desirable, in 

 order that if it should not be completed, as much as may be pub- 

 lished may be complete in itself. To every science, a chapter is 

 prefixed containing the biographical works devoted to those men 

 who were distinguished in that science : to the section on tradi- 

 tions, a chapter will be prefixed containing works on the biographies 

 of person who collected traditions, in like manner to the section 

 on law the biographies of Jurisconsults will be prefixed, &c. In 

 imitation of Baron von Hammer-Purgstall and other orientalists, of 

 biographical works, generally, a table of contents is given containing 

 the names, principal dates and the titles of the writings of the 

 subjects of the biographies. These chapters are therefore of con- 

 siderable length. Of other works only the title of the book, a short 

 account of the author, if none be contained in the chapter on bio- 

 graphy, a short notice of the contents of the book, the date and 

 the authorities on which it is founded — if they are quoted — the 

 the size and the collection in which the book is found are mentioned. 

 At the end of each volume three indices will be added, one of names 

 of persons and places, one of book-titles and one of the initial lines. 



The first 174 pages of the portion printed contain an account of 

 41 Persian Tadzkirahs, there is besides a Persian Tadzkirah men- 

 tioned under No. 62, and three or four will be mentioned in the 

 appendix, they having come to hand after the above pages had gone 

 through the press. Of several of these Tadzkirahs or biographies of 

 Persian poets, a table of contents is given. 



Prom page 175 to 192 twenty biographical works of Eekhtah 

 poets are enumerated, and from page 195 to page 306 is a table of 

 contents of the Eekhtah Tadzkirahs containing in alphabetical order 

 short notices of upwards of fifteen hundred Eekhtah poets. 



In page 307 begins the second chapter containing the works of 

 Persian poets alphabetically arranged according to their takhalluc. 

 The 142 pages which are printed of this chapter contain 236 num- 

 bers, the last name is that of Jamy, so that more than one half of the 

 chapter remains to be printed. The remaining chapters of this volume 

 will contain the works of Eekhtah poets, Dictionaries and Grammars 

 of the Persian language, Inshas and tales in Persian, Grammars 



